SANJIV BHATT

Ahmedabad: With the Ahmedabad court of Metropolitan Magistrate BJ Ganatra rejecting Zakia Jafri's plea against Special Investigation Team (SIT) clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, the latter said that her fight for justice will continue and she will appeal in a higher court...

Ahmedabad: In a major boost to the Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the court of Metropolitan Magistrate BJ Ganatra found no merit in the protest petition filed by Zakia Jafri, the wife of late Congress leader Ehsan Jafri who was killed during the...

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has asked the state government to produce original registers, related to vital intelligence records of 2002 riots, which were destroyed by it.
A division bench of High Court, headed by Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and J B Pardiwala on Friday asked the state government to produce...

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has denied reports that the Home Ministry is looking at the possibility of dismissing Gujarat cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Sanjiv Bhatt. Shinde told CNNIBN that no file recommending Bhatt's sacking has come to him as yet.
Bhatt, who has taken a...

Ahmedabad: Supreme Courtappointed SIT, probing the 2002 Gujarat riots, on Wednesday claimed suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was not a "witness" in the complaint against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, but a "manipulator".
"Sanjiv Bhatt was never a witness to any meeting held by Chief Minister, but he is fabricating everything...(he)...

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday temporarily stayed the trial against suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a 16yearold case of custodial torture in Porbandar. Justice SR Brahmabhatt ordered stay till further orders and fixed the hearing in the first week of May 2013.
Bhatt, who was posted as...

Ahmedabad: 5.36 pm: The voter turnout in the second and final phase of Gujarat assembly elections on Monday was 70 per cent. The turnout has been the same as that in the first phase of polling in the state on December 13.
5.05 pm: The voting on Monday closed in the...

Ahmedabad: As Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi bids for an unprecedented third term in office in Gujarat, the thought of his own electoral future seems to hardly cross his mind. And that's not without a reason. After all, Modi is locked in an unequal fight with a political novice, the...

Ahmedabad: Two women have dared to take on the 'Iron Man' of Gujarat, Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The two women, Shweta Bhatt wife of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt and Jagruti Pandya former state Home Minister Haren Pandya's widow have been leading a personalised campaign against...

Jamnagar: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's case will be heard in a Jamnagar court on Tuesday. The local court had earlier framed charges of murder and other offences against him in a 22yearold case of custodial torture. Recently, Sanjiv Bhatt's wife Shweta Bhatt given a poll ticket by the Congress...

Ahmedabad: Congress candidate from Maninagar, Shweta Bhatt, on Sunday appealed Keshubhai Patelled Gujarat Parivartan Party to withdraw its candidate from the fray. Bhatt, the wife of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, is contesting the election against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from Maninagar.
The constituency is considered to be a BJP...

Ahmedabad: It was the last day on Thursday for filing the nominations for the second phase of Gujarat Assembly elections, and amongst those who filed nominations were Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his opponent for the Maninagar seat, the wife of controversial IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt.
Hitting out strongly at the...

The BJP lashed out at the Congress for fielding suspended IPS office Sanjiv Bhatt's wife Shweta against Narendra Modi in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections. BJP leader Smriti Irani said that the Congress is using the Bhatt couple as its political tool. She also took on the couple saying it...

Ahmedabad: Suspended Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt who says that he has been targeted by Chief Minister Narendra Modi has alleged that evidence related to the 2002 Gujarat riots has been selectively destroyed and hence an inquiry should be ordered into the same. "These are state control room records, state...

IPS officer and known Narendra Modi baiter Sanjiv Bhatt has been charged with the custodial death of a VHP worker. The incident dates back to 1990 when Bhatt was the assistant SP of Jamnagar. Six other policemen have been indicted in the case as well.
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Jamnagar: In a major setback to suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, a local court on Thursday filed charges against him and six policemen who are accused in the 1990 Khambalia custodial death case.
The Gujarat High Court had on October 23 rejected the petitions of the accused policemen challenging the Jamnagar...

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government has admitted before Justice GT Nanavati Commission that some documents related to 2002 postGodhra riots were destroyed by it 'in routine course'. This was disclosed on Friday in an order passed by the Commission on an application filed by suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who had...

New Delhi: The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday directed the Narendra Modi government to provide documents related to the police control room during the 2002 riots to suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt.
Bhatt had approached the High Court seeking permission to get the documented records pertaining to the Gujarat riots. The...

Ahmedabad: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Wednesday asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)ruled Gujarat government to desist from "vindictiveness" and revoke a "halfbaked" suspension order issued against him.
On October 1, on the recommendation of the Union Home Ministry, the Gujarat government had revoked the suspension of Bhatt, in one...

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government on Monday revoked the suspension of IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, as it accepted the decision of the central review committee which reports to the Union Home Ministry.
The IPS officer had been suspended in August 2011 for not turning up to work in the wake of his...

Ahmedabad: While the country and Twitter is still buzzing about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's Google+ Hangout chat, former Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has questioned his intention.
In an open letter to the Gujarat Chief Minister, Bhatt accused Modi of distancing himself from the Naroda Patiya verdict in the 2002...

Ahmedabad: The SIT closure report, which gave a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in postGodhra riots, has found faulted the Supreme Courtappointed amicus curiae's finding that he can be charged with certain offences related to the riots.
The amicus curiae (one who assists the court) has "erred" by...

Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court on Wednesday stayed the proceedings against suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a 1990 custodial torture case.
Justice AS Dave, who stayed the investigation against Bhatt, also issued notices to the state government and complainant Vijaysinh Bhatti.
The next hearing will be on June 22.
The IPS officer approached...

Jamnagar: A court in Jamkhambhalia on Tuesday issued bailable warrant against suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt for not appearing during the hearing of a case of alleged police atrocity, which had resulted in one death.
Sessions judge NT Solanki issued bailable warrants against Bhatt and four other police personnel who did...